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<strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br /><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8963640/kill-command-for-a-jailbroken-iphone" rel="nofollow">Kill Command for a jailbroken iPhone</a>

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Hey I am looking for a kill command that lets my app kill other apps while my app is running in the background. I am building my app on a jailbroken iPhone so I am looking for one that will work with the iOS X platform. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank You, rytime

There is killall, which will kill an application by it's binary's name, or there is kill which will kill by a process ID. Are either of those what you want?

Example usage:

NSString *exec = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"killall %@", executableName]; system([exec UTF8String]); <hr />NSString *exec = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"kill %i", processId]; system([exec UTF8String]);

If your app isn't made especially for that purpose then you shouldn't do this without the user knowing it. You can either use "killall executableName" in a system() command or if you are developing for MobileSubstrate then you could hook some SpringBoard classes and close the SBApplication/remove the SBApplicationIcon from the switcher which will also close the corresponding SBApplication.